Magazine-closure for firearms.



No. 672,783. Patented Apr. 23. I90l. .R. H. KJELLMAN & G. L. ANDERSSON.MAGAZINE CLOSURE FOR FIREARMS.

(Application filed Jan. 17, 1901.) (No'ModeL) INVENTORS 2%? ATTORNEY laR I WITNESSES:

UNITE STATES RUDOLF HENRIK KJELLMAN AND GUSTAF LEANDER ANDERSSON,

STOOKHOLM, SWEDEN, ASSIGNORS TO AKTIEBOLAGET AUTOMATGIL VAR, OF SAMEPLACE.

SPECIFIGATIONfoi'ming part of Letters Patent No. 672,783, dated April23, 1901.

Application filed January-1'7, 1901. Serial No. 43,591. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that we, RUDOLF HENRIK KJELLMAN, director, and GUSTAFLEANDER I ANDERSSON, mechanician, subjects of the King of Sweden andNorway, and residents of Handtverkaregatan 37,,Stockholm", in theKingdom of Sweden, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsinFirearms, (for which we filed applications for patents in' Sweden on the27th day of September, 1900, under No. 1,591; in Norway on the 19th dayof October, 1900, under No. 13,081.; in Denmark on the 19th-day ofOctober, 1900, under No. 1,119; in Germany on the 24th day of October,1900, under No. A 7,474, 11l/72 in Austria on the 22d day of October,1900; in Hungary on the 25th day of October, 1900, under No. 14,930; inSwitzerland on the 23d day of October, 1900, under No. 25,115; in Franceon the th day of November, 1900, under No. 293,655; in Belgium on the27th day of October, 1900, under No. 121,017; in

Italy on the 13th day of November, 1900,

under No. 15,920; in Finland on the 16th day of November, 1900; in Spainon the 13th day of November, 1900; in Russia on the 7/20 day ofNovember, 1900, under No. 12,530, and in Turkey on the 22d day ofNovember, 1900, under N0. 500/476,) ofwhich the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in firearms with a View toefiecting an easy insertion of the cartridge-carrier into the(-artridge-box as well as its ready removal from the latter.

Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of the cartridge-box with thecartridge-carrier placed therein, and Fig. 2 a transverse section of thesame on line a b of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the cartridge-box viewed frombelow, and Fig. 4 the cartridge-carrier viewed from below with itssupporting-springs partly'cut away. The carrier 1 is supported. by twocrossed or otherwise suitably placed shaped springs 2 2, projecting fromeach end of a bottom piece 3 and attached-at opposite ends of thecarrier. The piece 3, which may be made in one piece with the springs,the latterbeing folded over the former,or to which the springs may bespecially attached, engageswith its 1 j ends in grooves 4 orin notchesor between lugs or the like on the end walls of the car'-' tridge-box 5,and its length is so gaged that it forms an inwardly-curved are, thusform-" ing a spring, which is kept in a state of tension between theends of the box. If one end of the spring 3 is pressed into the box byone finger, as indicated by dotted lines, the other end of the springthereby will become d'isen-f gaged from the box and drop out of thelatter, it being afterward easy to remove partsfl, 2,

and 3from the box. When theyare to be in-' serted, the carrier is put infirst, then one end of spring 3 is inserted into the recess provided forit in the box, and, finally, end of the spring 3 is pushed into at theother end of the box. sure acting from above the spring 3 rests pertherecess fectly secure in the box 5; but from below it can be readilydisengaged by the simple ma-- nipulation described.- The spring 2 3 andthe carrier can also be easily disengaged from each other. For thispurpose one spring end 6 is shaped as a hook and inserted through theother Against presan eye or loop 7 on the carrier, and the other springend 8 is provided with a slot 9 larger at one end, so as to admit ofthesaid spring end being slipped onto a stud 10, secured to the carrier1 and provided with a head. When the spring is to be disengaged, one ofits ends 8 is first unhooked from the stud l0, and the spring issubsequently swungfinto the dotted position, Fig. 4E, and finallyunhooked from the eye 7. The slot 9 permits a shifting of the spring onthe stud in its usual yielding action cartridge-box and its endsengaging with re-' oux namesin the presence of twdljis k psoribmg cessesor notches in the said walls, from which Witnesses.

it; can be urlhooked by applying a pressure upon it from below, or intowhich it can be RUDOLP HENRIK KJELLMAN' inserted irom below, all with aView to aceoin- GUSTAF LEANDER ANDERSSON" plishing a'ready insertion andremoval of the Witnesses: springs and cartridge-carrier. ERNSTSVANQVIST,

In Witness whereof We have hereunto signed AUG. SORENSEN.

